Automobile perch



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- G. c. ROEDL AUTOMOBILE PERGH www@ Filed Sept. 14, 1922 Patente-d Apr. l0, 1923.

AUTOMOBILE PERCH.

Application led September 14, 1922.

To all whom it may' conce/m Be it known that I, GEORGE C. RoEDL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Beaver Dam, in the county of Dodge and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Automobile Perch, of which the following is a specification.

rIhis invention relates to perches for automobiles and more particularlyto perches for use on Ford cars.

The object of the invention is to provide a reversible perch for adjusting the rear spring of a Ford car whereby the car body may be supported at its proper height at all times.

Another object is to provide such a perch in the form of a casting which is cheap to manufacture and simple and easy to adjust.

Vith the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosedmay be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 represents a rear elevation of a portion of a Ford car with its improved perch shown applied and with parts broken out, and

Fig. 2 is a similar view sho-wing the perch in another position.

In the embodiment illustrated, the perch 1 constituting this invention is made iu the form of a substantially triangular casting havinga bolt receiving aperture 2 at its apex and a similar aperture 3 at one corner while an arm 4: extends laterally outward from the lother corner. The arm 4 is equipped at its outer end with a bolt receiving aperture having countersunk head receiving recesses 6 and 7 in the opposite faces of the casting adjacent the ends of the aperture. This aperture 5 is designed to receive a bolt 8 having a hexagonal head 9 which is designed to rest in one of the counter-sunk recesses and to hold the bolt against turning when the nut is being applied thereto.

The rear spring S of the car is connected by a shackle S with the casting l which shackle is pivotally engaged with one of the apertures 2 or 3 according to the height which it is desired to support the car body.

Serial No. 588,208.

It is well known that Ford automobiles after being driven a short time usually sag in the rear, and this perch is designed to remedy this defect by lifting the springs to the proper height after such sagging occurs. This is accomplished by mounting the shackles S in the aperture 3 formed at the upper corner of the casting. YVhen these perches are rst applied, they are secured in the position shown in Fig. l, with the apertured corner 3 projecting laterally outward and the corner 2 laterally inward. The shackle S is pivotally connected with this apertured corner 2 and the spring S will be held in normal position.

S-liould sagging of the car body occur at the rear, the perches l are reversed into the position shown in Fig. 2 and the shackles S mounted in the apertured corners 3 thereof which elevates the springs sufficiently to promptly position the car body.

From the above description it will be obvious that two adjustments may be obtained with a single casting by simply reversing its position.

The peculiar triangular shape of the casting l provides for a proper clearance of the spring during either adjustment.

I claim l. A perch of the class described in the form of a reversible casting having spring attaching means on opposite sides thereof at longitudinally spaced intervals.

2. A perch of the class described in the form of a substantially triangular casting having bolt receiving apertures in two of its corners and a laterally extending apertured arm at its other corner.

3. A perch of the class described in the form of a substantially triangular casting having bolt receiving apertures in two of its corners and a laterally extending apertured arm at its other corner, the aperture in said arm having counter-sunk recesses at its opposite ends, said recesses being angular in form to receive and hold an angular head of a bolt.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE C. ROEDL.

Witnesses:

JOHN C. HEALY, JAMES F. HEALY. 

